T Tastes Tea: With Milk and Honey 🍯

Warning: Inhaling the spicy fragrance of this tea bag may singe your nose hairs. Trust me on this one. It’s important to heed warnings.

It’s time for another T Tastes Tea! Why has it been so long since I’ve partook in a tea tasting? Besides the fact that I had too much tea on hand to justify purchasing a new box, no reason, really.  

With that made crystal clear, let’s move on to Stash Ginger Fire Chai Tea. It’s been sitting in my cupboard for ages. To be honest,  I thought it was “Fireside” tea when I drafted my post. This Freudian sip ‘splains it all. Clearly, Stash Ginger Fire Chai isn’t a summer patio brew. It’s a spicy combination that can warm the whole body from head to toe and tummy to tail. 

So what’s in it? 

• ginger root
• yerba mate
• cinnamon
• natural vanilla flavour
• and… *drum roll* 
• natural ginger flavour

If you’re wondering what yerba mate is, so did I. Upon reading many optimistic facts about this ingredient, most of them proved to be unproven. Huh… *crickets chirp* 

Let me simply tell you that this particular “mate” is a traditional South American drink made from the leaves and stems of the Ilex paraguariensis plant. Don’t worry, I can’t pronounce it either. 

So how does Ginger Fire Chai Taste? 🔥 🍵 ☕️ 🫖 

I wasn’t sure, really. My cup of tea was too hot to taste much of anything. To enhance the flavour and cool things down I added some almond milk and honey and gave it a good stir. Once my taste buds recovered, it was a pleasant tasting spicy warm cup of tea. It’s difficult to say how much of this was the tea itself, and how much was the addition of the almond milk and honey. 

Speaking of the addition of Milk and Honey…

As we sip our tea with milk and honey we can reflect on what Scripture reveals about God’s provisions. According to this article HERE on Israel Today, David Lazarus writes that a land flowing with milk and honey is often mistaken as symbolic for luxury and abundance.

What does a land flowing with milk and honey truly depict?

David illustrates the true picture by calling our attention to Deuteronomy 11, In essence, this verse reveals that God will be the source of their milk and honey (or the source of their blessings and provisions.) Not the land itself.

Furthermore, David calls our attention to Duetoronomy 11:8-12 where God informs Israel that this land He’s bringing them into won’t be as hospitable for planting as it was back in Egypt. Why is this important? As Deuteronomy 11 reveals, God required Israel to keep His commands and serve Him with all their hearts. If they didn’t, His anger would burn against them, and the rains they needed to thrive in this new land would cease. The way God put it was that he was putting before them a blessing and a curse. It was their choice how to proceed with this knowledge. David Lazarus puts it beautifully when he states that the Scriptures are trying to teach us that we ought to be longing for something else. For a time when we can stand in awe and wonder at the God of Israel who provides for His children with milk, and honey, even in the dry places, and turns the bitter sweet.

As believers in Christ, we are grafted onto Israel’s family tree. This means that God has gone one step further to ensure that we reach that land flowing with His blessings and provisions. Through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, those who accept Him as their Lord and Saviour will be enabled, through the power of God’s own Spirit within them, to live according to His commands. (Or in other words He will give us new hearts.) I guess you could say this is our milk and honey.

Jesus’ said it was finished on the cross…. He meant it. Sip, and meditate on that one. ☕️ 🫖 🥰

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He will sustain you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:8